NEED TO KNOW
- Universal Studios Hollywood shared a peek astatine its upcoming Fast & Furious-themed roller coaster
- The caller ride, Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift, will get astatine nan amusement parkland successful 2026
- In nan meantime, parkland goers tin cheque retired nan ride's Dodge Charger from Friday, June 13 to Sunday, August 10, 2025
Universal Studios Hollywood is getting fresh for a full caller attraction to drift into nan park.
The Southern California amusement parkland gave nan first look astatine its latest roller coaster — and first-ever outdoor roller coaster — connected Thursday, June 12. The caller ride, Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift — inspired by nan long-running Fast & Furious franchise — will get astatine nan amusement parkland successful 2026!
Along pinch announcing nan opening date, Universal Studios Hollywood added a video that included a rendering of nan caller ride. The video originates pinch a close-up look astatine nan roller coaster’s vehicle, Dominic Toretto’s Dodge Charger. (It will besides beryllium connected show earlier nan ride’s opening, from Friday, June 13 to Sunday, August 10, 2025.)
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The video includes various clips from nan deed action series, pinch nan cars revving their engines and speeding done nan streets.
It besides shows renderings that show really nan thrust vehicles will move astir to create a sensation of drifting cars, each while pursuing nan coaster’s path, and occasionally going upside down. “With a groundbreaking 360-degree rotation of nan individual thrust vehicles arsenic they rocket on an elaborate track, this is simply a roller coaster for illustration nary other,” nan park’s June 12 announcement read.
Per nan video, nan thrust will seemingly return riders complete nan park’s signature escalators betwixt nan precocious and little lots, giving parkland goers a look astatine nan riders and vice versa.
The caller thrust will beryllium nan fastest roller coaster successful each nan Universal parks, pinch a maximum velocity of 72 mph, per Deadline. It will usage 4,100 feet of way and statesman crossed from nan entranceway to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
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“Watching nan advancement of this unthinkable roller coaster travel to life is genuinely spectacular,” Scott Strobl, Universal Studios Hollywood executive vice president and wide manager, said, per nan outlet.
“2026 is conscionable astir nan corner,” he continued. “‘Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift’ will beryllium a powerful crippled changer for Universal Studios Hollywood that will not only toggle shape nan topography of our destination but will infuse an wholly caller level of adrenaline to our already move taxable park.”